Financial Times Person of the Year explained

The Financial Times, a British business newspaper, annually nominates a Person of the Year to the person the newspaper has considered has demonstrated considerable influence in a given year. There appear to have been a number of instances (1971, 1979, 1995) when no person was nominated.^[1]

List

Past recipients:

Year	Choice	Notes	Ref.
1970		President of the European Commission	^[2]
1972
1973		King of Saudi Arabia
1974		Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1975
1976		President of the United States
1977
1978		Senior Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
1980		Leader of the Solidarnosc movement
1981
1982
1983
1984		(Representative of) the Army of Unemployed
1985		Leader of the Soviet Union
1986
1987		Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1988	and	Founders of KKR & Co. Inc.
1989		Leader of the Soviet Union
1990
1991		United States Secretary of State
1992		Paramount leader of the People's Republic of China
1993
1994		Co-founder and CEO of Microsoft
1996		Founder and CEO of News Corporation
1997		Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1998		Chairman of the Federal Reserve
1999		Polymath and inventor
2000		Biochemist and entrepreneur
2001		CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC Partners
2002
2003		CEO of General Electric
2004		Attorney General of New York
2005	and	Founders of Google	^[3]
2006		CEO of ArcelorMittal
2007			^[4]
2008		President-elect of the United States	^[5]
2009		CEO of Goldman Sachs
2010		Co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc	^[6]
2011		Representative of the Arab youth in Arab Spring	^[7]
2012		President of the European Central Bank	^[8]
2013		Founder of Alibaba Group	^[9]
2014		CEO of Apple Inc	^[10]
2015			^[11]
2016		President-elect of the United States	^[12]
2017		Software engineer, formerly at Uber	^[13]
2018		Philanthropist	^[14]
2019		CEO of Microsoft	^[15]
2020	and	Founders of BioNTech and co-developers of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine	^[16]
2021		CEO of Tesla Inc. and SpaceX	^[17]
2022		President of Ukraine	^[18]
2023		CEO of Novo Nordisk	^[19]

Notes and References

1. Web site: FT Person of the Year. ig.ft.com.
2. Web site: FT Person of the Year. Financial Times. 12 December 2017.
3. News: The single-minded technologists. 12 December 2005.
4. News: Trichet navigates choppy waters. 23 December 2007.
5. News: Person of the Year: Barack Obama. 23 December 2008.
6. News: Silicon Valley visionary who put Apple on top. 23 December 2010.
7. News: A generation at last in ferment. 12 December 2011.
8. News: FT Person of the Year: Mario Draghi. 13 December 2012.
9. News: Person of the year: Jack Ma. 12 December 2013.
10. News: Person of the Year: Tim Cook of Apple. 11 December 2014.
11. News: Person of the Year: Angela Merkel – The transformation of a cautious chancellor. 13 December 2015.
12. News: FT Person of the Year: Donald Trump. 12 December 2016.
13. News: Hook. Leslie. FT Person of the Year: Susan Fowler. 12 December 2017. Financial Times. 12 December 2017.
14. News: Hook. Leslie. FT Person of the Year: George Soros. 19 December 2018. Financial Times. 19 December 2018.
15. News: Waters. Richard. FT Person of the Year: Satya Nadella. Financial Times. December 19, 2019.
16. News: Miller. Joe. Cookson. Clive. FT People of the Year: BioNTech's Ugur Sahin and Ozlem Tureci. 17 December 2020. Financial Times. 16 December 2020.
17. News: Waters. Richard. Elon Musk: Interview with FT's Person of the year. 16 December 2021. Financial Times. 15 December 2021.
18. News: FT Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelenskyy. ‘I am more responsible than brave’ . Financial Times . 5 December 2022.
19. Hannah Kuchler, "FT Person of the Year: Lars Fruergaard Jørgensen of Novo Nordisk", Financial Times, 19 December 2023, accessed 6 January 2024